talk about things that are on my mind

Feist’s 1,2,3,4 – Sesame Street Style...

Love it!

So the kids and I are in our favourite local grocery store when eldest starts fidgeting…”Do you have to go to the bathroom?”...”No”, she replies.

We pay for our groceries and leave the store and walk about 300m to a Dollar Store and begin picking up a few things…fidgeting starts again….”Let’s go find a bathroom.”....”No Mommy, I don’t have to go!”
3 minutes pass…..”Mommy….” “Yes dear.”....”Mommy, I have to go to the bathroom really badly!”

We leave our basket and run back to the grocery store, go up the elevator to where the bathroom is (it’s a single one – only one toilet in one room) but a lady is just before us sauntering in her snakeskin high heels and long nails while talking on her cell phone. She can clearly see that my little girl is doing the pee-pee dance but still slowly proceeds into the bathroom and locks the door – all while talking on her cell phone!

We can still hear her in there talking away…I’m not sure if she multi-tasked while she was in there but, whatever…she was in there a long time! We waited but when we couldn’t wait any longer we snuck into the men’s room (when it became free) before there was an accident….thank goodness men pee quicker than most females!

As a young girl, my mother and I always did a lot of things together. A lot of the things we would do would be artistically inclined which has led to my love of all things artsy-craftsy.

I am a perpetual planner. Tie that in with my love of documenting all things relating to my children and BAM you’ve got creative project city.

Here are some of the things that I have in the works:

- family tree (one for each child)
- family history book ~ this idea just came to me in the shower this morning while I was shaving my legs!
Each page of the book would be dedicated to one family member and would have interesting facts and tidbits about their lives, connections, etc. and would have pictures to one side of them from various stages of life. Oh, x2, so that both children can have one.
- shadow box memory frames ~ a frame for each child’s knit baby hat, newspaper clipping, etc.
- work on updating both children’s baby journals
- creating new journals for writing down things about each of them now
- art portfolios for each child with their artwork from preschool, JK and SK.
- continue developing all my pictures and putting them in albums
- archive all pictures onto disc so that I can free up space on my computer
- creating a photobook from one of those online retailers like snapfish or the like

I’ve even thought about scrapbooking but I think that would put me over the deep end. I vow to start tackling these projects and to not tackle any new ideas until these ones are completed.

When I’m sad or stressed…I eat.

Sigh.

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Dear Cheer Fairy,

I’m sorry that I said you suck – you don’t suck, you’re just very, very busy. I know & I sympathize.

I would really, really like to have more cheers now. I have many people who are cheering me and leaving great comments of encouragement & I would like to do the same.

Many thanks for your attention to this matter.

Respectfully,

Cdngirl2

I guess that pretty much details how I feel about the Cheer Fairy (lol)!

But seriously, I don’t think we should be given so few cheers…it’s depressing. I want to cheer a bunch of people – not have to pick two and then come back later to see if I was awarded any more.

Silly system and something “they” (that’s right, you 43T bots) should fix.

Signed,

Disgruntled

I am a busy Mom…heck, all Moms are busy, who’s kidding who?!

To get right to the point, I rarely put myself first – it’s part of the job/territory – I get it and I’m okay with it.

I am often shuttling our little ones to sporting events, school, appointments, etc. and – once a year – I get to go to see my doctor for a full check-up.

I have no aversion to doctors, I used to want to be one, but I was mystified when, yesterday, I received a phone call from my doctor’s office to cancel my upcoming physical. I am now being put on a two year rotation and I am only required to “come in for a quick 15 minute appointment to have a pap”.

Now…forgive me…WHAT?!* My doctor is now too busy to take 45 minutes one day a year to have a full discussion regarding my overall health?? She does get paid for this through OHIP so what’s the issue? or am I missing some new legislation that now dictates that we neglect healthcare in this country.

The receptionist assured me that if I needed to discuss anything with the doctor that I could book a separate appointment on another day to come in for 15 minutes to discuss any health concerns. Yeah, I have some concerns…and they centre around you, dear doctor.

The worst thing is that there is such a shortage of doctors that you can’t even switch to another one…no one will take you if you’re already covered off with medical care.

Is it just me or is this asinine???

Okay…I am here to rant again…

So today we’re at the soccer field for our very first outdoor game of the season – with hubby coaching, none the less. I am helping to organize the parents and my two little ones are running around playing on the grass.

Near to where we are all standing there are some low bleachers (four steps high max) and the kids are running around and kicking the ball. Little one falls down while running and lands with hands outstretched and gets a huge cut from some broken beer bottle pieces that were nicely (note the sarcasm) concealed in the grass.

I run, as best I can while holding a 40 pound bleeding child who is screaming, off three sets of fields to get to my van and rush to the walk-in-clinic.

Question: Litter is, in itself, disgusting and a gross sign of disrespect for our environment – but what idiot thought that breaking a beer bottle wouldn’t cause some injury to someone who would, in all likelihood, be playing there? And, if they did realize this and didn’t care, then I wish there were some way to identify them with some sort of idiot marker (like a target sign or something) so that someone could help to educate them. I’ll gladly volunteer to do the educating. :)

Anyway, I normally make it a habit to do a visual sweep of the areas that my children play but – the one time that I didn’t yet get a chance to – something happened.

Lesson learned.

Ah, okay ~ I’m good now.

Have a great day everyone!

Remember, play safe and always put litter in its place!

Paralyzer – Finger Eleven
Somebody Told Me – The Killers
Mr. Brightside – The Killers
Last Resort – Papa Roach
Can’t Stop – Maroon 5
Wake Up Call – Maroon 5
Little of Your Time – Maroon 5
Butterfly – Crazy Town
Here It Goes Again – Ok Go
Fat Lip – Sum 41
U + Ur Hand – P!nk
Bawitdaba – Kid Rock
Lose Yourself – Eminem
Move Along – The All-American Rejects
Thnks Fr Th Mmrs – Fall Out Boy
Blister in the Sun – Violent Femmes
The Rockafeller Skank – Fatboy Slim
Weapon of Choice – Fatboy Slim
Shut Up and Drive – Rihanna
Pocketful of Sunshine – Natasha Bedingfield
Ain’t No Other Man – Christina Aguilera
Girlfriend – Avril Lavigne
4 Minutes – Madonna (featuring Justin Timberlake)

I still want to add in Been Caught Stealin’ by Jane’s Addiction, and a few others.

See… I told you I like everything!